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It was a small country residence and, according to the Maréchal de Bassompierre, a mere gentleman would not have been overly proud of the construction. Louis XIII decided to rebuild it in 1631. Construction continued until 1634 and laid the basis of the Palace we know today. -
Versailles before the reign of Louis was mostly used as a royal hunting lodge but Louis had other plans for it. In 1661, he began expanding it into his personal palace. -
this is when he married her. -
dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the nonprivileged classes of the French nation (the Third Estate) during the meeting of the Estates-General (traditional assembly) at the beginning of the French Revolution.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen , written in August 1789, is a central document of the French Revolution and fundamental to the history of both civil and human rights.
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The Women's March on Versailles in October 1789 is often credited with forcing the royal court and family to move from the traditional seat of government in Versailles to Paris, a major and early turning point in the French Revolution.
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The Tennis Court Oath (in French, Serment du jeu de Paume) was a commitment to a national constitution and representative government, taken by delegates at the Estates-General at Versailles. -
The Bastille Prison was stormed on 14th of July 1789. It was attacked because they wanted its gunpowder and weapons. The commander of the prison was killed and the seven prisoners inside were all released.
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Louis ascended to the French throne in 1774 and from the start was unsuited to deal with the severe financial problems that he had inherited from his grandfather, King Louis XV. In 1789, in a last-ditch attempt to resolve his country’s financial crisis, Louis assembled the States-General, a national assembly that represented the three “estates” of the French people—the nobles, the clergy and the commons.
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The Reign of Terror, commonly called The Terror, was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic
